Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals
Friend, M. (2021). Interactions: Collaboration skills for school professionals (9th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
Read Chapter 4 – Integrating communication skills in interviews, pp. 82-107.
This chapter provides ways to enhance your ability to conduct interviews with families, how to prepare and craft interview questions, and attend to the cultural context in which the interview is occurring.
Read Chapter 11 – Families, pp. 274-303
The information and tools in the chapter offer strategies to promote family participation in educational decision-making and understanding family life cycles, and the special education teachers' roles and responsibilities to interact with families.
Your course textbook can be accessed via the DART eBook link in the Getting Started module.
Avendano, S.M., & Cho, E. (2020). Building collaborative relationships with parents. A checklist for promoting success. Teaching Exceptional Children, 52(4), 250-260.
Francis, G. L., Haines, S. J., & Nagro, S. A. (2017). Developing relationships with immigrant families: Learning by asking the right questions. Teaching Exceptional Children, 50(2), 95-105.
State Education Resource Center. (2013). How can we work together? Building reciprocal school/family partnerships. Communication and relationship building [Video].
● I’m Determined. (2022, Nov. 3) Student involvement in the IEP process – Session 3 – The Good Day Plan [Video]. Virginia Department of Education.
● This is the third in a series of four videos for special education teachers to explore how to increase student Involvement in the IEP process by utilizing Good Day Planner for self-awareness and metacognition.
Avendano, S.M., & Cho, E. (2020). Building collaborative relationships with parents. A checklist for promoting success. Teaching Exceptional Children, 52(4), 250-260.
● Drazin, S. (2022). The power of inclusion in and beyond school. [Padlet].
○ Session Two Resource Materials. Are you afraid to talk to your child about his disability?
○ Session Two Resource Materials: How to talk to your kid about disabilities.
Francis, G. L., Haines, S. J., & Nagro, S. A. (2017). Developing relationships with immigrant families: Learning by asking the right questions. Teaching Exceptional Children, 50(2), 95-105.
